Best quotes by Jeff Goodell on America
Checkout quotes by Jeff Goodell on America
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‟ One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
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‟ If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
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‟ It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
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‟ Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.
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‟ The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
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‟ Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
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‟ The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.
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‟ It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
- Jeff Goodell